Quality Transportation and Preservation of Food using Smart Plate

Abstract

Food is to be preserved with good quality while served and consumed. Quality of food for its taste and flavour is based on PH level, moisture content, Alcohol content, Temperature and Humidity. Food is now cooked and served in the hotels, homes and also transported to consumer places. In between, the time of cooking and consuming, it needs to be preserved. The proposed system is developed to maintain the quality of food meanwhile. Consumption of stale food taken by human leads ill health and extensive wastage of food. In India, the majority of the population struggles for their daily basic food needs for living. Efficient preservation of existing food resources is critical. The great amount of money spent on diagnosis treatment of diseases is also a cause for concern. Researchers work hard to tackle the issue of food poisoning due to stalled ones and reduce the damage to unwary consumers has given rise to innovative and productive devices. The use of electrical sensors to determine the staleness of food has proved to be a boon to consumers of packaged foods. The proposed module consist of a flat plate consisting of variety of sensors like PH Level sensor, Food moisture content detecting sensor, Gas sensor and MQ3 sensor . This plate can be placed in any utensil and a keypad/selection panel is used to select the type of food item. These sensors are connected to arduino, GSM, Mobile and LCD display to know the status of the food.